I started ninth grade a week after everybody else had started, and I didn't know anybody. I was in a chorus class, and they asked me to bring my guitar to school one day, which I did, and all of a sudden, people knew me... in the halls, people would start saying hello.

John Denver

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

John Denver

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

John Denver

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

John Denver

Peace is a conscious choice.

John Denver

I ran away from home when I was a senior in high school, and it came out of all the conflicts that happen between parents and their children who can't communicate.

John Denver

I just play the guitar and write songs.

John Denver

I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

John Denver

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

John Denver

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

John Denver

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

John Denver

We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

John Denver

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.

John Denver

My activities were centered around school and football and church and senior high fellowship, and I got together with a couple bands and started playing parties, proms, stuff like that. It was the music that really worked for me.

John Denver

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

John Denver

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

John Denver

I started ninth grade a week after everybody else had started, and I didn't know anybody. I was in a chorus class, and they asked me to bring my guitar to school one day, which I did, and all of a sudden, people knew me... in the halls, people would start saying hello.

John Denver

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

John Denver

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

John Denver

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

John Denver

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

John Denver